Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:08:21 -0700, Mike Bregg <[email protected]>
wrote:
I've been using the VPS provider Vultr.com (https://www.vultr.com/) for
a few months now, and have no complaints.
They're KVM-based, and have datacenters in the US, Europe, Japan, and
Australia. They allow you to install from a custom ISO, so OpenBSD
works well.
OpenBSD on VULTR customer here too, with a few points to add.
1) OpenBSD is not a supported OS, so even though it works pretty well, if
you run into any weird network drop-out issues on a particular hosting
node, in my experience they are somewhat quick to play the 'unsupported
OS' card the and give up troubleshooting.
Your best bet in these instances is to move the VPS to another datacenter.
I've moved a snapshot of a VPS that was having network problems to another
datacenter and the issue went away, go figure.
2) In the past year and a half of hosting, my VPSs have suffered approx
4-5 unplanned reboots. Typically this is when they have a problem with the
host node and it has to be bounced.
3) VULTR is more accurately described as a VPS provider with cloud-like
features, similar to Digital Ocean. I would not classify it a true 'cloud'
infrastructure service like AWS.
For something closer to AWS, you might consider something like dedify [1]
or iwstack [2]
[1] https://www.dedify.com/
[2] http://www.iwstack.com/
